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Volume 48 Index
Articles
Science and Medicine
Evolutionary Neurobiology and Aesthetics 17
C. U. M. Smith
The Eye Does Not See What the Mind Does Not Know:The Bacterium in the Worm 31
Thiruchandurai V. Rajan
Pain and the Placebo: What We Have Learned 248
Ginger A. Hoffman, Anne Harrington, and Howard L. Fields
"Meaning-Making" in Language and Biology 317
Yair Neuman
Lessons for the Stem Cell Discourse from the Gene Therapy Experience 585
Theodore Friedmann
Ethics and Philosophy
Medicine and the Call for a Moral Epistemology 42
Alfred I. Tauber
Ethical Issues in Animal Cloning 328
Autumn Fiester
Meeting Threats to Global Health: A Call for American Leadership 344
Solomon R. Benatar and Renée C. Fox
History and Biography
Gonorrhea and the Beginnings of Clinical Research Ethics 54
Thomas G. Benedek
Ambiguous Bodies and Deviant Sexualities: Hermaphrodites, Homosexuality,and Surgery in the United States, 1850–1904 74
Christina Matta
The Remarkable Vision of Robert Hooke (1635–1703): First Observer ofthe Microbial World 266
Howard Gest
Was Darwin a Creationist? 362
Chris Cosans
Hugh Ross's Curious Lymphocyte Experiments 372
Caoimhghín S. Breathnach
The Emergence of Multiple Sclerosis, 1870–1950: A Puzzle of HistoricalEpidemiology 383
Colin L. Talley
The Bells Are Ringing: Tinnitus in Their Own Words 396
Leon Morgenstern
A Psychiatrist's Life and the Emerging of Her Creative Eye 408
Barbara Young
The Osler-Cushing Covenant 592
Thomas P. Duffy
Medical Education and Practice
Narrative Possibilities: Using Mindfulness in Clinical Practice 84
Julia E. Connelly
William James, Faith, and the Placebo Effect 273
Franklin G. Miller
When Medical Cure Is Not an Unmitigated Good 282
Kristina Orfali and Lisa Anderson-Shaw
Culture and Society
The Evolution of Euthanasia and Its Perceptions in Greek Cultureand Civilization 95
Kyriaki Mystakidou, Efi Parpa, Eleni Tsilika, Emmanuela Katsouda, and Lambros Vlahos
Deformity in the Boxing Boys 105
Susan Ferrence and Gordon Bendersky
Alternative Reality and Art: The Creative World of Walter Inglis Anderson 124
Paul Rodenhauser
Why Birdsong Is Sometimes Like Music 426
Luis F. Baptista and Robin A. Keister
Essay Reviews
Can We Learn from Our Patients? 138
Michael J. Blend
Military Medicine in the Spanish-American War 293
Alfred Jay Bollet
Pushing the Boundaries of Ecosystems 301
Oswald J. Schmitz
The Development of Penicillin: Genesis of a Famous Antibiotic 444
Ronald Bentley
The Hidden Costs of Environmentally Responsible Health Care 453
Paul Carrick
Response to Carrick 458
Jessica Pierce and Andrew Jameton
Red Sky at Morning 603
Theodore L. Steck
Book Reviews
Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease 143
by Hanan Polansky / reviewed by Kim E. Barrett
Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of the Enlightenment 146
by Giuliano Pancaldi / reviewed by George Basalla
The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain 148
by Alice W. Flaherty / reviewed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Learning from HIV and AIDS 150
edited by George Ellison, Melissa Parker, and Catherine Campbell / reviewed by David Pitrak
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor 153
by Paul Farmer / reviewed by Seth Holmes
Phantom Limb 156
by Janet Sternburg / reviewed by Audrey K. Gordon
The Human Cloning Debate, 4th ed. 307
edited by Glenn McGee and Arthur Caplan / reviewed by Mary B. Mahowald
Genes and Insurance: Ethical, Legal and Economic Issues 309
by Marcus Radetzki, Marian Radetzki, and Niklas Juth / reviewed by Ray Moseley
Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the TwentiethCentury 312
edited by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks / reviewed by Lainie Friedman Ross
Speciation 315
by Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr / reviewed by John C. Avise
Note from the Book Review Editor 464
Morton F. Arnsdorf
Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins 465
by John A. Kastor / reviewed by Stanford J. Goldblatt and by Michael C. Riordan
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Medicine 612
by John Harley Warner / reviewed by Richard C. Keller
The Doctor's Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story...